Strong's Hebrew · H2267

חֶבֶר

cheber · kheh'-ber

[phrase] charmer(-ing), company, enchantment, [idiom] wide.

Definition

a society; also a spell

Derivation

from H2266 (חָבַר);

Appears 7 times in Scripture

Proverbs 25:24

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:9

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Isaiah 47:9

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

Deuteronomy 18:11

casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

Isaiah 47:12

So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

Hosea 6:9

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

Psalms 58:5

refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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